Genius and Other Related Allegorical Figures in the "De Planctu Naturae," the "Roman de la Rose," the "Confessio Amantis," and the "Faerie Queene."

Author/Editor
Brumble, Herbert David, III.

Title
Genius and Other Related Allegorical Figures in the "De Planctu Naturae," the "Roman de la Rose," the "Confessio Amantis," and the "Faerie Queene."

Published
Brumble, Herbert David, III. Genius and Other Related Allegorical Figures in the "De Planctu Naturae," the "Roman de la Rose," the "Confessio Amantis," and the "Faerie Queene." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Nebraska, 1970.

Review
Argues that Alanus de Insulis's figure of Genius in "De Planctu" is the source for the figure in the "Roman de la Rose," "Confessio Amantis," and "Faerie Queene," and that the development of Genius is intimately related to the development of the figure of Natura. [RFY1981].

Date
1970

Gower Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Confessio Amantis